Powered By EPIC ON. The Ganatantra podcast is about politics in India, but steering clear of intrigue and personalities, and the everyday news cycle. Join political science thinker Dr Sarayu Natarajan, the founder of Aapti Institute, a think tank which looks at issues of technology and policy and policy lawyer Alok Prasanna Kumar, Senior Resident Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy in Bengaluru, as we bring data, academic works and nuanced perspectives into understanding how politics in India works, apart from identifying and making sense of the broader trends taking place.
The preparation of the final list of the National Register of Citizens has stirred up more than its share of controversy with two million or so people in Assam suddenly facing the prospect of being rendered stateless. The antimigrant read...
Few issues in post independence India have caused as much heated debate as the issue of reservation in government jobs and college seats. The purpose of this move as the SC famously put it, was parity and not charity. However, with the 103rd...
The historic NALSA judgment National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India, 2014 was historic in that it read in major rights to be applicable to the transgender community, including specific directives to the government around social and...
The platform gig economy has brought several changes in the way work is performed and organised. Some kinds of work challenge the very underpinnings of labor and industrial laws such as the need for a place of work and the space for collective...
Across India, radical Dalit movements have dipped their toes into electoral politics as they have tried to represent their communities in institutions of governance. What challenges do they face Why has the BSP been more successful at electoral...
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of India ordered state governments to begin eviction of Adivasis and Forest dwellers whose claims for forest rights under the Forest Rights Act had been dismissed. Following a backlash against the move from Adivasi...
Popular discourse about Maoists in India veers from the extremes of heroism to demonization with little attempt to address the nuances of the situation. Given that the movement draws its support from some of the most Marginalised communities in India,...
Large scale migration has been a feature of life in the Indian subcontinent in the last two centuries, both within and out of the region. In his book, India Moving Chinmay Tumbe calls it the Great Indian Migration Wave an ongoing process that is...
In the last decade or so, the Indian higher judiciary and its functioning have come under the scanner like never before. The Supreme Courts proceedings are covered daily, often minute by minute in important cases and its judgements dissected...
Unlike Indias neighbouring countries, the Indian Armed Forces have never intervened in any manner in the affairs of civilian government. The reasons for this have been explored by scholars and has been attributed to a range of factors from the...
The Indian Constitution guaranteed universal adult franchise from the moment it came into force. In a country with inequalities and divisions based on caste, gender, language, and ethnicity, this was a radical move that speaks of the vision of the...
The political and constitutional crisis in Maharashtra, which unfolded after the 2019 Assembly elections once brought to the public glare the potential for misuse of the office of the Governor. It has prompted calls to abolish the office or reform it...
Alok and Sarayu discuss the big political events of 2019 Article 370 in Kashmir, the Supreme court judgment on Ayodhya and the CAA/NRC and examine their political implications. References are made to relevant episodes and material from previous...
Were releasing this special episode of Ganatantra today to talk about the recently passed Citizenship Amendment Act, fears over a proposed all India National Register of Citizens and the governments response to it through internet shutdowns and...
As we head towards the end of 2019, Sarayu and Alok discuss the General elections and State Assembly elections of the year and what they told us about the state of politics in India. We use the various insights given to us by the experts who joined us...
The news media is sometimes called the fourth pillar of democracy but at a time when its business model is under attack thanks to large internet companies, and its credibility at risk in the age of fakenews, existential questions about its role...
As Indian public universities become both spaces for and subjects of political disputes often breaking out into violence its worth examining what it means for such universities to be political especially in the face of increasing privatization of
In this episode celebrating one year of the Ganatantra, Sarayu and Alok talk about the problems with police in India why theres low trust in then, why theyre failing at law and order and investigation functions and why there have been almost no seri
In the third series of episodes of Season 2, well be discussing federalism and State politics in India going indepth into the politics of certain states and some larger themes to understand politics at the state level. In this episode, Sarayu and Alok
The image of Kerala politics contains two dissonant and contrary images that of a state with some of the best human development indicators in the world but also high numbers of targeted killings.In this weeks episode, were joined by journalist
All governments need to raise and spend money but in Indias complex three tier government, the process by which this money is raised and spent is a subject with serious political and constitutional implications.
As a state with came into existence on the basis of a demand for linguistic reorganization, its somewhat of a mystery that Karnataka has not yet seen a mass movement or major political party based on linguistic identity.
In this weeks episode, Dr. Manisha Priyam joins us to discuss Delhi politics. She walks us through her fieldwork and her prediction of the rise of the AAP, the new politics of Delhi post the violence at JNU and the deeply communal campaign, and th
The Ganatantra podcast is about politics in India, but steering clear of intrigue and personalities, and the everyday news cycle. Join political science thinker Dr Sarayu Natarajan, the founder of Aapti Institute, a think tank which looks at issues of...
Why are farmers in India mobilizing and agitating What are the politics behind the waiver of Farm Loans by State Governments across the country In this episode, Sarayu and Alok go in depth into the economic and political causes for rural distress...
What is the landscape of social media in India How are political parties using social media to cement narratives and organise voters What are different types of media And what is different from broadcast media In this episode, we talk to Venkat...
There has been a long standing demand for reservations in legislatures in India for women. Currently, fifty percent of positions in panchayati raj institutions are reserved for women. If womens issues are to come to the fore in politics, is increased...
In this episode we speak to Dr. Diego Maiorano, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore about two fascinating topics. First we ask him about his book Autumn of the Matriarch: Indira Gandhis Final Term in Office which...
Concerns about land and land rights have been key political issues from the beginning of the republic. Even as India urbanizes, these issues have not receded but taken new forms and new dimensions. Issues of land acquisition and redistribution, and...
Starting this week we hope to discuss important themes and issues that might inform how voters choose and how parties reach out to voters in the upcoming elections. Before each phase of election, we will pick one state going to the polls and break...
Indias newest state goes to the polls tomorrow in the first phase of polls alongside its parent state. Though Telangana and Andhra Pradesh were once the same state, their political trajectories have been very different and likewise the socio ...
As parts of Assam and the North Eastern states of India go to the polls we take this opportunity to discuss some of the issues which have caused much discussion, debate and anxiety in the region. Specifically the implementation of the National...
Gujarat goes to the polls in the third phase of elections. In the last five years it has seen economic upheaval as a result of demonetisation and implementation of the GST. It has also seen mass agitation by Patidars and Dalits over reservations and...
Contrary to popular perception, Rajasthan is a diverse state which features everything from well irrigated agricultural regions to deserts, large urban centres, to a significant tribal belt along the border with Gujarat. It was also the state where it...
In this episode, we are joined by Shoaib Daniyal ofs team to talk about politics in West Bengal and learn about how the BJP is mobilising in this critical state that goes to polls tomorrow. We learn about the trajectory of left politics in...
In this episode, we are joined by Ankur Bhardwaj, Senior Editor at Business Standard to talk about the State of Haryana which goes to the polls in the 6th phase of polling. Assembly elections are also scheduled a few months after Lok Sabha polls...
In a couple of days, discussions about the 2019 General elections will hinge on the release of exit poll numbers put up by various survey and media agencies. We explore what it takes to go from a good track record in calculating vote shares to...
The results of the 2019 elections have shown that brand and personal messaging on the part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi played a large role in the massive victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Going forward, social media platforms, both...
The National Democratic Alliance managed to repeat its 2014 election performance in Maharashtra winning 41 seats the United Progressive Alliance, despite the alliance with the NCP did worse than 2014. This, in a state which has seen farmer...
Even though the Bharatiya Janata Party managed to cross the halfway mark for the second successive time in the 2019 elections, the coalition era of Indias politics is well and truly entrenched, arising partly from the high degree of fragmentation in...
Tamil Nadu was one of the only states the others being Kerala and Punjab to resist the otherwise comprehensive sweep by the National Democratic Alliance in 2019. Yet, in the simultaneously held Assembly bypolls, the statelevel ruling AIADMK was not...
Political institutions, be the elected assemblies or political parties have not had the presence of women in their ranks, and not in senior levels. Is that too sweeping a statement How does one parse presence, representation and voice for women in an...
With the Bharatiya Janata Party and the National Democratic Alliance managing to almost repeat their 2014 performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, from the looks of it the Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party failed to stitch up an effective...
Arguably, a central issue in the 2019 elections was the idea of India. The right, notably the BJP, imagine an idea of India at whose centre is a Hindu, and where Muslims and others are excluded. But who is a Muslim To discuss issues such as the...
The NDA in Bihar faced antiincumbency at both the State and Union levels when it went to the polls in 2019. Its stunning performance in the elections, improving on its performance from 2014 suggests that the alliance was able to in fact benefit from...
In this episode, we talk about the institutional tugofwar that has taken place between the judiciary and the political executive over who controls the procedure to appoint judges to the High Courts and the Supreme Court. In this episode we try to...
Over the last six months we have discussed the macro of Indian politics, addressing large themes and looking at the politics at State level. In this episode, the last before we take a short hiatus, we go into the micro of Indias politics where we...
The abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution has been a long standing promise of the Bharatiya Janata Party and it would not surprise too many that they chose to act on it. Yet, what surprised everyone was the manner in which it was done, and the...
In this episode, were joined by Dr Andrew Whitehead to frame the debate over Article 370s abrogation in the context of Kashmirs complicated history. We look at the circumstances of Kashmirs entry into the Indian Union and why the provision exists...
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